Plasma acceleration by area expansion

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-84

  Manheimer, Wallace M ^b   Fernsler, Richard F ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neutral etching; Plasma sonic transition; Plasma thrusters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; IONS; PLASMA ETCHING; PLASMA SHEATHS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; SUBSONIC VELOCITY; SUPERSONIC VELOCITY;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 0035245521     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.912945     Document Type: Article

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